Is it possible to remove text displayed in the address bar without redirecting the page? For instance, if the address is:
http://example.com/?page=main
Can I get the server to change the displayed text to:
http://example.com/main
Will this affect SEO? I've researched htaccess, but can't find anything useful.
I'd also like to be able to enter:
http://example.com/main
And for users to reach the page displayed here, with the above text:
http://example.com/?page=main
How can I achieve this?
Put this code in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
# external redirect from actual URL to pretty one
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+\?page=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1? [R=302,L]
# internal forward from pretty URL to actual one
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/?$ /page=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
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I want to rewrite
mypage.com/country/country.php?country=something
to
mypage.com/country/something
in the address bar, using htaccess
I've tried many things and looked everywhere and the closest I've got is:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} country=([^\&]*)
RewriteRule ^country.php$ /country/%1? [R,L]
But this just produces a rewrite loop that alternates between the two links above and I don't understand why.
I want both
mypage.com/country.php?country=something
and
mypage.com/country/something
when entered, to show
mypage.com/country/something
in the address bar
Any help?
If you have a rewrite loop it suggests that besides that rule, you also have a rule that translates it back. You'll need the 'ugly' url to only trigger when it is an external request. The easiest way to do that is by matching %{THE_REQUEST}.
#Ugly to fancy url; should be R=301 when it works
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|POST)\ /country\.php\?country=([^\&]*)\ HTTP
RewriteRule ^country.php$ /country/%2? [R,L]
RewriteRule ^country/(.*)/?$ /country.php?country=$1 [L]
I have an htaccess file with several redirects, Now I want to create a pretty url for some link. I tried the following sentence and it does nothing:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/example1.html /?page_id=100 [NC]
When I type www.MyDomain.com/?page_id=100 in my browser, the site shows, but the url still looks the same as I typed it. How would I change my sentence to show example.html in the url-bar instead of ?page_id=100 ?
Thanks in advance
You have a rule that says:
When the browser requests: /example1.html
Then show them: /?page_id=100
It goes one way, it doesn't do anything if the browser requests /?page_id=100. If you want to do something about a browser requesting the query string URL, *you need a rule to tell mod_rewrite to do it*:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /(index\.php)?\?page_id=100($|\ |&)&?([^\ ]*)
RewriteRule ^ /example1.html?%3 [L,R=301]
Also, you may want to get rid of the / in the pattern of your rule:
RewriteRule ^example1.html /?page_id=100 [NC]
Leading slashes are stripped off when matching against rules in an htaccess file.
I recently with the help of SO solved my htaccess rewriterule issue:
Reuse subdomain in a rewrite rule
The result is that when somebody enters
whatever.example.com/anypage
in the adress bar, the htaccess automatically redirects to
whatever.example.com/somepath/whatever/anypage
What I wish to do is to find a way to just show whatever.example.com/anypage in the adress bar with the content of whatever.example.com/somepath/whatever/anypage displayed.
In the post I mentioned earlier, Jon Lin clearly mentions the following:
redirects always change what's in the browser's URL address bar
However I know some very frequent cases of url rewritting that would show in the adress bar let's say, for instance:
example.com/article-1-15
but actually showing the content of
example.com/somepath/somepage.php?article=1&otherparam=15
How could this apply to my case? I really wish to have a tiny url but it seems I missed something.
You may try something like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/([^/]+)$
RewriteRule .* http://whatever.example.com/somepath/whatever/%1 [L]
It will map:
http://whatever.example.com/anypage
To a resource at:
http://whatever.example.com/somepath/whatever/anypage
showing always in the browser's address bar:
http://whatever.example.com/anypage
UPDATED
If whatever is dynamic and is the same in the substitution URI, here is another option:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ([^/]+)\.example\.com.*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/([^/]+)$
RewriteRule .* http://%1.example.com/somepath/%1/%2 [L]
This will work as long as both "whatever" in the substitution path are the same. If they are not, the last "whatever" has to be hardcoded, like this:
RewriteRule .* http://%1.example.com/somepath/whatever/%2 [L]
There is no other way as the incoming URL doesn't have it.
Alright, title is REALLY sloppy.
Here's my problem: I have a news site and when you go to the main page (domain.com) it redirects you to domain.com/news/top?geography=San_Francisco after it figures out your geography.
How do I use the .htaccess so that it goes from domain.com/news/top?geography=San_Francisco domain.com/San_Francisco/news/top ?
There are some similar questions, but I have not found one similar enough in that you're editing the URL as a furtherback subdirectory.
It should also be noted that I am using the Code Igniter framework for PHP and it normally has it as domain.com/index.php/news/top?geography=San_Francisco but I did a mod_rewrite already to get rid of the index.php. The code is as follows for that:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
Code I've tried:
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/news/top$ /news/top?geography=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
Before the index.php rule that you have, try adding this:
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/news/top$ /news/top?geography=$1 [L,QSA]
You'll need to make sure the links you generate are in the form of domain.com/San_Francisco/news/top though.
But to take care of the links in the wild that still look like the old way, you have to match against the actual request:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /news/top\?geography=([^&]+)
RewriteRule ^news/top$ /%1/news/top? [L,R=301]
This will 301 redirect the browser if someone goes to the link domain.com/news/top?geography=San_Francisco and make it so the browser's address bar says this: domain.com/San_Francisco/news/top. At which point the browser will send another request for the second URL, and you use the rule above to change it back into the one with a query string.
I just noticed that sometimes (even when given a wrong url) load perfectly fine. How do they accomplish this? What I mean is, suppose you click on a link that seems good like www.foo.com but it contains in the end a space character which would appear on the address bar as www.foo.com%20 some sites manage to redirect this to their correct url while others just break. How can this be achieved? I'm guessing it's something to do with the .htaccess but I have no idea what to do or where to do it.
The URL I'd like to redirect looks like this actually: http://foo.com/%C2%A0
I get the following error message:
The requested URL /%C2%A0 was not found on this server.
How can I make this redirection?
So far I came up with:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\ /[^%?\ ]*\%
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.foo.com/ [R=301,L]
but it's not working at all